Quotes About Earned

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

Perhaps knowledge should not be available to all. Perhaps it should be earned, parceled out from master to worthy student only, rather than committed to paper where anyone who chances upon it may claim it for himself.

If rank and money come with love and virtue, also, I should accept them gratefully, and enjoy your good fortune, but I know, by experience, how much genuine happiness can be had in a plain little house, where the daily bread is earned, and some privations give sweetness to the few pleasures.

It's hard to appreciate success in modeling, because it's not something you feel like you've earned, so there is a little bit of bread of shame that comes with that. It's like somebody giving you a puzzle that's already put together.

whats the point to spend money you haven't earned, to buy thingsyou don't need, to impress people you don't like

Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.

People just don't get it. Appearance is arbitrary. And if it's not arbitrary the it's compensation. Pretty face, ugly heart. Either way, it's not something earned.

But at the same time, a bloated welfare state that nudges middle-class citizens away from the labor force is moving our society away from the dignity of earned success.

The highest qualities of character... must be earned.

I would love to retire a Raider, but I have earned the right to be a free agent.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

Based on their extensive review of evidence, Hattie and others (2017) recommend: "not to mix praise with feedback about the content, as it dilutes the feedback message." When given, praise "needs to be specific, sincere, accurate, earned, preferably unexpected, not exaggerated, more private than public, and not include social comparison.

Throughout human history beauty has been seen as a gift from God, but Mom had another notion; she thought that beauty could be earned through self-knowledge. It may be a revolutionary idea, but it has offered me great comfort.

Respect must be earned, Ren. Not demanded. A questioning mind is the most cherished resource man has and the rarest." – Choo Co La Tah

Peace is the precious fruit of a righteous life. It is possible because of the Atonement of the Savior. It is earned through full repentance, for that leads to refreshing forgiveness.

Most of the coverage I received was fine. I didn't agree with all of it. I disliked the criticism I received, although I earned some of it. I also understand why my opponent's campaign made such good copy and attracted more attention than ours did. He was new news. I wasn't. And most reporters were more aligned with his politics than mine.

Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.

Coach Fisher, I know what he's accomplished and who he is. He's a great man with a great family, and the Hall of Fame is something he's earned. It's something he deserves.

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.

Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.

There is an earned innocence, I believe, which is as much to be honored as the innocence of children.

Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.